1Testbed as urban epistemology
Could New Songdo be a huge data sampler? So that the smart city Songdo not only an information collector or a recorder, but also could make an expectation and simulation.
Data will be the currency in new realm, and sensing devices could be a new materializes in an architecture the more sophisticated also means more vulnerable. So this fragile system is truly benefit to the citizen who lives in the city or benefit to the people who have access to the data?
2 $100 Billion Dollar Jackpot —–Townsend
What is the purpose of the emerging and developing of the smart city? As telegraph didn’t appear out of nowhere. It was invented to meet the growing need to coordinate vast of commercial and government enterprises. So does the smart network? Do we really need the smart city?
It seems Cisco aimed China will be his next costumer due to the large amount of needs during urbanization, could the smart city be the next generation of the urbanize?